The Highest Paid Models of All Time: 15 Photos

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2. Verushka

The daughter of German aristocrats, Countess Vera Gottlieb Anna von Lendorf, who began her modeling career at the age of 20 in the 1960s. By the standards of those times, Verushka was too tall and thin, so in order to get a job she was forced to come up with a pseudonym that sounded like a Russian name.

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The 7 Worst Epidemics in Human History

The new year 2020 began with the advent of a new virus in the Chinese city of Wuhan. To date, coronavirus has claimed about 100 lives and continues to test people for strength. The history of mankind has repeatedly known extremely dangerous viruses and epidemics, which claimed millions of lives, wreaking havoc on the trail of panic and chaos. But even the worst of all infections, people managed to win and live on ... exactly until the next outbreak of some mutated flu.